Alice Coltrane’s “Om Shanti”
Alice Coltrane Have a listen to this beautiful soaring track by the late Alice Coltrane, “Om Shanti,” appearing on Luaka Bop’s forthcoming collection entitled World Spirituality Classics, Volume 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda.…
Endpoint from “The Divine Feminine,” Spring 2016
Church of Sweden Archbishop Antje Jackelén (l.) and Bishop Eva Nordung Bystrom, 2014 Despite a growing awareness of the Divine Feminine, women remain ineligible to head many major religious groups and institutions, including the Roman Catholic…
Snow Day Reflection, by Tracy Cochran
Valerius de Saedeleer (1876-1946), Winter Landscape There are different kinds of realizations. They are not always lightening bolts but sometimes soft and slow, as if snow were quietly falling and settling. Softly and slowly, as we…
Giving Thanks, by Tracy Cochran
George Inness, The Home of the Heron, oil on canvas, 30 by 45 inches, The Art Institute of Chicago, Edward B. Butler Collection, 1893 “Today we have gathered and see that the cycles of life continue.” Adapted…
Determination, by Tracy Cochran
Lawren Harris (Can. 1885-1970), Beaver Swamp, Algoma, 1920, oil on canvas. “If we could surrender to Earth’s intelligence, we would rise up rooted, like trees.” ―Rainer Maria Rilke One day recently I woke up with no…
Let it Be, by Tracy Cochran
King gave his most famous speech, “I Have a Dream”, before the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (Wikipedia) When…
Renewal at the Rubin Museum
Steve McCurry, A man during the Indian festival of Holi, Rajasthan, India In January, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan, a group of us practiced…
To Struggle, by Lee van Laer
Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, Prado, Madrid Struggle To exert one’s physical strength in persistent striving against an opposing force. To…
The Iron Maiden
Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, The Prado, Madrid I think we tend to create inward forms of our own — adopted, that…